One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.